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Date:      03 Nov 2000 10:59:32 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Like to commit my diskprep
Message-ID:  <xzplmv1l6kb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Marius Bendiksen's message of "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:14:00 %2B0100 (CET)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011022211110.13255-100000@login-1.eunet.no>

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Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> writes:

> >     e.g. there wouldn't be a whole lot of need for a 10G /usr.  Once hard
> >     drives got big enough I just left it at 2G.
> 
> This is a matter of preference (hence the reference to paint) and also the
> use intended for the system in question. However, the code is not going to
> be significantly more complex due to this, and I think it's a much better,
> ie cleaner, way of doing it.

One question that probably interests many of us is, can tuning those
numbers reduce fsck time? Is fsck time strictly proportional to disk
size, or does the number of inodes and/or cylinder groups affect it?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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